TUVAN YENISEI PUNK THROAT-SINGING SENSATION YAT-KHA PERFORM
LIVE AT THE SILENT FILM DAYS IN TROMSØ ACCOMPANYING V.I.PUDOVKIN'S
1928 SILENT RUSSIAN FORMALIST FILM MASTERPIECE "STORM OVER ASIA - THE
HEIR OF GENGHIS KHAN". PRODUCED BY MAREK PYTEL.
AN ORIGINAL REALITY PRODUCTION.

YAT KHA's performance of STORM OVER ASIA produced by Marek
Pytel at the National Film Theatre was recorded and forms the centrepiece
of the forthcoming DVD release. With newly struck full size Stenberg font
English language titles, the Disc also features a revolutionary 32 language
international subtitle menu, translated by the bands fans throughout the
world via the worldwide web coordinated by Lu Edmonds. Additional features
include an introduction by the Shaman Roman Sagaan shot in Tuva and a
wealth of historical documents & photographic materials, including the
previously unpublished memoirs of British officer Captain Hugh Stewart
Walker, stationed in Mongolia at the time the events depicted in the film
were taking place.

Music and Throat-singing from the Altai-Sayani Mountains of Tuva (southern
Siberia). Yat-Kha first emerged in 1991 at the "Voice of Asia Festival"
in Alma-Aty, Kazakhstan. Brian Eno was impressed enough to invent a "Special
Prize" on the spot for Albert KUVEZIN's unique ultra-deep "kanzat"
throat-singing. Now a 6-piece band - founder Albert is joined by young
"Khoomeiji" ace morinhuur player Radik TIULIUSH, and Tuvan musicians
Zhenya TKACHOV (percussion), Sailyk OMMUN (yat-kha, vox), Mahmoud SKRIPALTSCHCHIKOV
(bass) - the band has built up a reputation across many different audiences
appearing at Folk festivals, improv Jazz sessions, sweaty punk rock clubs,
new age gatherings, WOMAD, classical concert halls and the WOMEX 1999.
Prevented as late as 1989 by the KGB and local "ideological"
cultural departments from playing their contemporary take on age old forms
of local expression, YAT KHA today embrace the musical and vocal traditions
of the peoples who inhabit the Altai-Sayani mountains, the Tuvan, Khakass
and Mongolian nomads, whilst reaching out from one of the most remote
parts of the planet to modern life, electricity and other cultures.

A direct, frank, deadly blow to American, British and Soviet Russian imperialist
perfidity. Pudovkin's long neglected silent epic is screened here in its
restored full length original version unavailable for over 70 years. Re-issued
"sonorised" in the late 1940's but cut by over 30 minutes, the
film's original titles were excised and much unique historical footage
of local life in the Altai, Mongolian and Tuvan Urianghai Central Asiatic
Republics disappeared as these regions themselves were simply absorbed
into Soviet Russian territory. At the same time the film's original and
emotive ending, from which the title of the film "STORM OVER ASIA"
came, was censored almost to the point of travesty. This screening of
a new print restored by Film Preservation Associates and BFI Collections,
previously unavailable in the UK or anywhere else, restores all the previously
"lost" footage providing a rare opportunity to re-assess the
talents of one of world cinema's greatest theorists and a director of
genius.